novelraw Chapter 297 : Execution by Hanging
Chapter 297 : Execution by Hanging
The earth-shattering thunder tribulation lasted a full three months. More and more people were attracted by this disturbance, and the other three realms sent numerous secret agents to investigate the situation.
At Lingqing Sect, Immortal Chanyu sensed the change in her sect's young disciple's soul lamp. Her heart skipped a beat, and she was almost certain that this tribulation was caused by her. She immediately led a group of disciples to the tribulation area, controlling the surrounding area to prevent those with ulterior motives from taking advantage. Although the Ghost Realm, Beast Realm, and Demon Realm had openly formed an alliance with the cultivation world, there were already moles within the cultivation world itself, let alone the complex forces of the other three realms.
If the cultivation world could truly produce a peerless talent of the age, it would turn the tide of the current situation.
Chu Sang had no idea that this tribulation had caused such a commotion in the outside world. When she woke up, she was no longer in the wilderness. The tribulation had long since dissipated, and she was back in her quarters at the sect. She tried to sit up from the bed but nearly fell over.
Damn.
It hurt so much.
Her entire body ached incessantly. She couldn't pinpoint exactly what hurt, but it just hurt terribly, as if she had been forcibly beaten by a group of large men.
She drew in a sharp breath, rubbing her shoulder. Recalling everything that happened before she lost consciousness felt like a dream. Realizing something, she suddenly paused her movements and quickly used her divine sense to examine the drastic changes in her dantian. Upon coming to her senses, she realized it wasn't a dream.
She had successfully passed through the tribulation and officially advanced to the Unity stage.
Not knowing the current situation in the outside world, she hadn't yet had the chance to open the door and find someone when Fifth Senior Sister entered, carrying a tray of spirit food and healing pills. "Little Junior Sister, you're awake!" She placed the tray on the table, took Chu Sang's hand, and sat back on the bed, carefully instructing, "Is there any discomfort anywhere in your body? Master is concerned about your health and specially asked me to bring some Heaven-grade pills. When we found you, your body had been shattered by the lightning. Master almost went to the Ghost Realm to find Second Senior Brother..."
Chu Sang took the pills and rubbed her head. "Have I been unconscious for a long time?"
"Not very long, just three days."
"By the way, what about Chang Yu?" she asked urgently. That old bastard's condition shouldn't be much better than hers, right? Chu Sang remembered being struck down by the final bolt of the tribulation thunder and losing consciousness. Before she passed out, Chang Yu was already half-dead, in a much worse condition than her. He definitely couldn't have survived the final tribulation.
Surely there hadn't been some unexpected turn of events allowing that dog to escape again?
If so, Chu Sang would truly die of anger.
"Don't worry, he can't escape. When Master and I found you, the person you mentioned had already fainted. Master personally imprisoned him in our Lingqing Sect. He definitely can't run away."
"Fifth Senior Sister, where did Master imprison him? Can you take me to see him?"
Seeing Chu Sang jump out of bed, recovering so quickly and now full of energy, Changsheng was no longer very worried and led her to the sect's dungeon.
Chang Yu was imprisoned in a room within the dungeon.
Imprisonment formations were set up both inside and outside the dungeon. Chu Sang didn't believe that Chang Yu in his current state could escape from there. After being struck by lightning, the human god's avatar should have been dispersed, unable to cause any more trouble.
Upon reaching the restricted area, Chang Yu had not yet regained consciousness.
Changsheng said, "When we found this person, Master said that all his meridians had been broken, and almost all his acupoints had been scattered. If there's no fortunate turn of events in the future, he'll probably be a cripple."
A crippled puppet naturally had no value. To the human gods of the upper realm, Chang Yu and Qin Xixue were just pawns. After losing their value, they faced only abandonment.
"If I remember correctly, this person is an elder of Tianyan Sect, right? Originally, we should have immediately notified Tianyan Sect of this matter and sent him back, letting them deal with the traitor themselves. But Master said to keep this person here first, as you might have other arrangements, so he was kept here." Changsheng scratched her head and muttered softly, "Strange, he's been unconscious for so many days, even Little Junior Sister has woken up, why hasn't this person woken up yet..."
Chu Sang felt she was quite like a vicious female supporting character in a palace drama at this moment.
"Fifth Senior Sister, bring a basin of water to help this elder wake up."
"Splash—"
A basin of cold water was poured without warning. Chang Yu woke up in a sorry state, his long wet hair disheveled and spread over his body. There was no trace of the dignified demeanor of a celestial sect elder.
He clenched his fists, his eyes full of hatred as he looked at the two. His first instinct was to rush forward and attack, but he found that all his spiritual power was gone, and he was knocked down with a single palm strike from her.
"Now that you're a cripple, just stay quiet. Otherwise, I might not control my strength and accidentally beat you to death."
Chu Sang casually threw out a talisman to restrain him on the ground. She walked forward, squatted down, and said leisurely, "I don't have time to waste words with you here. I'll only ask you one question: how did you get involved with those dogs from the upper realm?"
"Upper... realm......"
A flash of confusion passed through Chang Yu's hateful eyes. Seeing this, Chu Sang suddenly felt a sense of unease in her heart. Sure enough, she saw him lower his head and mutter to himself, "What... what upper realm? I... don't know what you're talking about......"
Huh?
Amnesia?
Pretending?
Chu Sang frowned, suspecting that Chang Yu might be feigning ignorance. She even considered borrowing a soul-searching technique from some evil cultivators to see if he truly didn't know or was just pretending.
Changsheng thought of something and walked forward, covering her mouth and whispering in Chu Sang's ear, "Little Junior Sister, he seems to really not know. I remember when we first found this person, Master said he was very likely to have had his memories related to the upper realm erased by the Upper God. Even if we torture him, we probably won't get anything out of him."
That's quite pitiful indeed.
The harm of forcibly erasing memories is no less than soul-searching, causing great damage to one's divine sense. This time, Chang Yu not only lost all his cultivation and foundation, but his divine sense was probably also mostly ruined. He would have almost no chance of stepping back onto the path of immortality in the future.
After a moment of silence, looking at the disheveled, confused, yet hateful Chang Yu before her, Chu Sang suddenly felt a sense of emptiness. This person, who was ostensibly the first creator of her fate's disasters in the original story, had now met such an end. Perhaps because she hadn't fully experienced the plot of the original story, she didn't have much emotional response. She couldn't say she felt particularly hateful or pleased, but she definitely wouldn't let him go lightly.
Chang Yu should bear the due consequences of his actions.
"I have reported your criminal evidence to Tianyan Sect. Now that you are disgraced and have lost all your cultivation, you are no longer a celestial elder, but a criminal of the cultivation world..." She paused, lowered her eyes, and said in a flat tone, "To be honest, I want to kill you right now, but that would be too easy for you. The things you've done should be known to everyone, and you should atone for your sins in front of the entire cultivation world."
Humiliating Chang Yu in public would be the greatest insult to him.
That feeling would be worse than death.
Chang Yu became agitated, his words somewhat frenzied as he shouted sharply, "Don't forget! I saved you back then! If it weren't for me, you would have frozen to death in the icy wilderness... I am your lifesaver, yet this is how you treat me!"
"...Lifesaver?"
Chu Sang sneered, casually found a chair to sit down, slightly lowered her head, and stared down at the exasperated man, the coldness in her eyes intensifying, "The lifesaver you speak of wouldn't happen to be the kind who raises disciples like pigs, where the so-called master-disciple relationship is just a scheme from the very beginning, digging out my spirit root for the sake of the little disciple, and even wanting to take my heart's blood—that kind of lifesaver, right?"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but laugh, "There's no need for that. I don't want it. Being such a disciple is truly frustrating."
"I'd rather have frozen to death in the snow back then than accept your 'deep and righteous' master-disciple relationship."
"Ungrateful white-eyed wolf, you killed Xiao Xue!" The hatred in his eyes seemed about to devour her whole.
"Even on the brink of death, you still miss your little disciple who has long turned to ashes?"
She clapped her hands, more amused,
"Don't worry, you'll soon be able to meet your beloved disciple!"
If she remembered correctly, for a high-ranking sect member who betrayed the cultivation world, the punishment would be... soul-destroying execution by hanging, witnessed by the entire cultivation world.